A Franco-Ontarian, Rachelle was born and educated in Ottawa, Canada.Her career was part of her identity. While working for the Treasury Board of Canada, she denounced senior officials who sent a sex offender after her. Outraged with a complaint process that failed her bitterly, she researched similar cases. Her findings inspired Novel ‘Token Recourse’. "It was my only means of getting the truth on record,” she said.

Prior to the battering inflicted on her by powerful officials diverting attention from their misconduct, she had enjoyed good health. From that time, she experienced autoimmune problems.

In 1996 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She beat it but lost her job and her house. She fought back and faced a lynching identical to what she had known in Ottawa. Less than ten years following this lynching, she developed another cancer. ​Fighting back did not cause her health problems. Reprisals from the agencies she turned to for justice caused them. Her observations prompted her to write, 'What Reeks in Canada's Backyard'.

In 2007 she was diagnosed with Microscopic Polyangiitis, a life-threatening autoimmune illness. She was hospitalized, quickly diagnosed and treated. She recovered.

In 2014 she was diagnosed with Light Chain (AL) Amyloidosis. She endured nine months of chemotherapy, testing and the tour of specialists, all while working full-time. About seven months after her diagnosis, she was declared in remission. In 2018, she is still in remission.

She remains an active member of the workforce working out regularly. She states, “The excruciating pain of MPA made my fight with cancer seem like a walk in the park. Thank God, I pulled through. This systemic AL Amyloidosis however, is an insidious one. No matter, the long-term impact on my health of Treasury Board’s abuse of power continues to fail.”

She shares her observations in her e-Books, availableonly on this site.